Abstract

Transitory Paintings are made from reproductions of portrait paintigns from pages from Auction catalogues that have been cut to form an abstracted image. The work questions paintings lineage, particularly in relation to the slippage between something representational and something abstract: and what it might mean to be both. Each piece in the collective title of Transitory paintings is exhibited under the original title given to the original painting by the original painter. The work is full of interesting contradictions, some of which are below.

Painting / Not Painting

Beauty /Destroy

Drawing / Not Drawing

Cut away / Create

Portrait /Abstract

Old / New

Information / Mis-information

Representational / Non-representational

Obscure / Reveal

Of value / Worthless

Original Painter / Andrew Bracey

Paper / Oil on canvas

Etc / Full stop

Item Type:

Artefact

Additional Information:

Transitory Paintings are made from reproductions of portrait paintigns from pages from Auction catalogues that have been cut to form an abstracted image. The work questions paintings lineage, particularly in relation to the slippage between something representational and something abstract: and what it might mean to be both. Each piece in the collective title of Transitory paintings is exhibited under the original title given to the original painting by the original painter. The work is full of interesting contradictions, some of which are below.
Painting / Not Painting
Beauty /Destroy
Drawing / Not Drawing
Cut away / Create
Portrait /Abstract
Old / New
Information / Mis-information
Representational / Non-representational
Obscure / Reveal
Of value / Worthless
Original Painter / Andrew Bracey
Paper / Oil on canvas
Etc / Full stop